Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Ok here goes, two for Tuesday:

Two pics of...

Two silkies (Fluffy and Curly)
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And two Grey Ladies ( Whiskers and Misty)
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Are they Sapphire gems? They are lovely

 

[bgmathteach]

I looked everywhere, all my pockets, closets, barns and coop. I just can’t find any puns anywhere. I’m sorry I can’t be punny today.

Hmmm, no puns?
If you look in the coop, bet you could find some buns! (of the feathered kind!)

 

[RoyalChick]

Does that means she is part Welsummer and part Legbar....ohhh, if so, I am part correct tooo!!!
Bernadette aka Birdie is adorable, she will be one smart Lady, being so brave and inquisitive (giving, of course that , 'Momma' aka 'servant' will keep her fairly safe - a daunting task given Birdie's proclivities for finding trouble)

I dont know how to answer. It is possible that some time in the 1930s a Legbar may have been involved. I don’t know though, and I suspect not.
The bar in her name just means she has the barred gene - probably from a barred rock originally.
It seems like these folk in Britain working on auto-sexing called the breeds xxxbar to indicate that the breed had the barred gene and was auto-sexing.
Hence Legbar, Welbar, Wybar etc.

 

[bgmathteach]

...and did I post this one?

Seems everyone wants some of Reenie's supper


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Anyone who ever called chickens 'stupid' needs to see this...they know where their bread is buttered where there are good snacks to be found! (AND they know who is willing to share )

 

[bgmathteach]

I dont know how to answer. It is possible that some time in the 1930s a Legbar may have been involved. I don’t know though, and I suspect not.
The bar in her name just means she has the barred gene - probably from a barred rock originally.
It seems like these folk in Britain working on auto-sexing called the breeds xxxbar to indicate that the breed had the barred gene and was auto-sexing.
Hence Legbar, Welbar, Wybar etc.

Probably, though not definitively, started from the same source of barred bird....though unless we have a written account, or a geneticist on loan, I guess we will never know.

 

[RoyalChick]

Probably, though not definitively, started from the same source of barred bird....though unless we have a written account, or a geneticist on loan, I guess we will never know.

There is an article about it. I will look it up when I get a moment later.

 

[LozzyR]

A formal introduction: Bernadette (aka Birdie)

Birdie is a brave little soul. She was the first to come out from under the heat cave, the first to explore the top of the heat plate, and the first to do acrobatics on the branches. She is a pecker constantly looking out for things to peck at. She has pecked both her sisters and when I put my hand in she pecks my fingers while everyone else shrieks and runs away.

Bernadette means 'brave as a bear' and I think she is as brave as a bear. Maybe even braver than a bear pound for pound ounce.

Birdie is a Welbar. Congratulations - both @rural mouse and @micstrachan win this with their Welsummer guess. Welbars are recognized as a separate breed to Welsummers in Britain, but not in the US. I think they are basically the same, but with Welbars you can tell gender at hatch. I think they are very pretty.

Here she is doing what she does.

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Oh, so gorgeous!

 

[bgmathteach]

There is an article about it. I will look it up when I get a moment later.

That would be GREAT! Aside from sex links with mom barred and dad not, I don't know a lot about genetics and sex linking, so that would be great to learn more. I need to buy that poultry 'bible' everyone raves about. It is quite expensive, though. Maybe next year for Christmas or my B-day, if I give enough hints, I might get it.......

 

[Ponypoor]

Are they Sapphire gems? They are lovely

Thanks, they r lovely ladies. But alas they r mutts as far as I know.

They do lay lovely olive eggs tho!

 

[RoyalChick]

That would be GREAT! Aside from sex links with mom barred and dad not, I don't know a lot about genetics and sex linking, so that would be great to learn more. I need to buy that poultry 'bible' everyone raves about. It is quite expensive, though. Maybe next year for Christmas or my B-day, if I give enough hints, I might get it.......

I found the Welbar article. Basically they are descended from Welsummers and Barred Rocks. Welsummers are derived from a whole slew of chickens!
Both Welsummers and Welbars are now breeds not crosses - which I think means they breed true without introducing any other kind of chicken.
http://www.harislau.info/welbars

And here are the basics on the development of the Legbar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legbar#:~:text=3 Use-,History,Rock with gold Campine birds.
One thing that I wasn't aware of was that the first auto-sexing chicken developed in Britain pre-WWII was a 'Cambar' - an auto-sexing Campine!